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Beagle said:
The ones that are a dirge - like England’s, I agree but La Marseillaise is a stirring tune as is Il Canto Degli Italiani.
As for ourselves, I’d prefer Scotland The Brave, not so much the lyrics but the tune gets the blood pumping more than the Roy Williamson folk song
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New Zealand’s is great, probably because I’m an all blacks fan 😜
 
Beagle said:
The ones that are a dirge - like England’s, I agree but La Marseillaise is a stirring tune as is Il Canto Degli Italiani.
As for ourselves, I’d prefer Scotland The Brave, not so much the lyrics but the tune gets the blood pumping more than the Roy Williamson folk song
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The Italian one is a cracker.
I turn the volume up when it's played.
I'm with you on Scotland the Brave.
Flower of Scotland is slow and laborious.
 
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Does this resemble a whale in the Firth of Forth to you?....


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Whale sculpture added to Gasholder 1 park

A design portraying one of the Firth of Forth’s visitors – the humpback whale – was commissioned by the Council to be displayed in the new Gasholder 1 public park and it has now been installed. The piece of public art was created by artist Svetlana Kondakova Muir and will take pride of place in...
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EH17 Jimmy said:
Does this resemble a whale in the Firth of Forth to you?....


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Whale sculpture added to Gasholder 1 park

A design portraying one of the Firth of Forth’s visitors – the humpback whale – was commissioned by the Council to be displayed in the new Gasholder 1 public park and it has now been installed. The piece of public art was created by artist Svetlana Kondakova Muir and will take pride of place in...
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It might do once they take the cover off
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
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Whale sculpture added to Gasholder 1 park

A design portraying one of the Firth of Forth’s visitors – the humpback whale – was commissioned by the Council to be displayed in the new Gasholder 1 public park and it has now been installed. The piece of public art was created by artist Svetlana Kondakova Muir and will take pride of place in...
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Is it a Whelpie?
 
joethehibby said:
Most of them are dirges, especially flower of scotland and god save the king/queen 😩
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God save the King/Queen assumes everyone loves the monarchy (long to reign over us?). If you changed the words to "God save us from a King or Queen" it might help but the tune would still be a funeral dirge.
Mind you, would you prefer the possibility of a Trump type getting elected?
 
joethehibby said:
Most of them are dirges, especially flower of scotland and god save the king/queen 😩
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It's just the whole idea of a National Anthem.
A "song" representing a country ?
Cringing when players have to line up and bawl out a song before an international...I always turn the sound down on TV or switch it over till it's finished.
Probably feel this way because I have never been particularly patriotic, I just find the whole thing a bit of a joke.
 
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Greenmachine said:
It's just the whole idea of a National Anthem.
A "song" representing a country ?
Cringing when players have to line up an bawl out a song before an international...I always turn the sound down on TV or switch it over till it' finished.
Probably feel this way because I have never been particularly patriotic, I just find the whole thing a bit of a joke.
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Many feel uncomfortable doing it, a few just dinny bother, although the likes of new zealand, italy, brazil don’t half belt it out .
Could be the british don’t want to look / sound stupid doing it . Personally I don’t sing, canny 😩
 
Shaving. Only do it twice a week now. Beard grows in patchy so that's not an option. Wife complains I look like an old tramp if I'm not clean shaven.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
My beard grows oot the way like uncle Albert from only fools.

Luckily rat bairn is a barber. Takes her longer to do my eyebrows thannit does my head.
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In the gray hair or nae hair camps into which fate puts us, I am in the former camp. It does make me feel for the baldies though, when my own frustration at hair sprouting everywhere causes me to wonder how much more frustrating that must be where it won’t grow where it’s supposed to.

Nose, ears, eyebrows, a fuckin pita. Less annoying, having a head of hair, but still a product of age, a hairy-ish chest I never had when I was younger, and hair pretty much sprouting everywhere.

Must really be a piss take if you’re a baldy who regrets being one.
 
When your P3 grandbairn goes to get her school photies done and they leave the P3's till after dinner time.

Her hair 🤣🤣 like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Rat bairn will not be purchasing her photies this year.
 
EH17 Jimmy said:
When your P3 grandbairn goes to get her school photies done and they leave the P3's till after dinner time.

Her hair 🤣🤣 like she's been dragged through a hedge backwards.

Rat bairn will not be purchasing her photies this year.
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The price of those things these days is ridiculous.

Our lot were wanting £22 for downloads, not even a fucking print!
 
Aye it's just another money making project. You'd have thought a teacher would have been present and fixed the bairns' hair.
 
Supermarkets and their suppliers ( brand names )must thing their customers are daft. Not only do they put prices up, they also decrease the sizes of things . Snickers, picnics, crunchies, to name just a few
 
One, though there are many, are the adverts with choreographed bams dancing to encourage us all that buying product x,y,z will be a joyous epiphany.
Similarly the recent 'Flash' ads that that seemingly endow super hero powers to cleaning floors, bunkers and the ultimate nemesis of the existence to humanity as we know it ....dust.
Targeting auld fools like me who watches repeats of Rising Damp, Shameless etc on ITV3 with constant ads for, electical driven chairs that help you get up off our arses, walk in showers/baths and interminably joyous ones fogging cremation/burial policies!

BIG G
 
GORDONSMITH7 said:
One, though there are many, are the adverts with choreographed bams dancing to encourage us all that buying product x,y,z will be a joyous epiphany.
Similarly the recent 'Flash' ads that that seemingly endow super hero powers to cleaning floors, bunkers and the ultimate nemesis of the existence to humanity as we know it ....dust.
Targeting auld fools like me who watches repeats of Rising Damp, Shameless etc on ITV3 with constant ads for, electical driven chairs that help you get up off our arses, walk in showers/baths and interminably joyous ones fogging cremation/burial policies!

BIG G
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On a related note, I seem to get lots of spam emails now for senior dating sites and erectile disfunction! 😲
 
They never seem to show anyone having to get those electric wheelchair thingys up stairs though.

There one advert does my box though. It's for heating. And the advice they give is to all sit in the main room at night to use less heat.

Maybe if the fuckers closed the livingroom doors in the advert they would save more heat.
 
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